Example Sentences

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She scrabbles to find her reason for being.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023

Such scrums and scrabbles can be found around England on Shrove Tuesday, from Corfe Castle in Dorset to Alnwick in Northumberland via Ashbourne in Derbyshire and Atherstone in Warwickshire.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2020

So Pluto is doubly fitting for the doppelgänger who ascended from underground and scrabbles around on all fours.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2019

As his wife scrabbles with angry protesters and gripes about her compromised marriage, he is sequestered in the bathroom, represented only by a mordant song that his aide-de-camp sings on his behalf:

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

A dove scrabbles along the gutter calling hoo hoo hoo.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr